Ukraine: Leader Gives War’s Grim Toll

By The Associated Press

May 8, 2015

Nearly 7,000 civilians have been killed in the war in eastern Ukraine between government forces and Russian-backed separatists since fighting erupted last year, and more than 1,000 people remain unaccounted for, President Petro O. Poroshenko said Friday. The figures are a sharp increase from the most recent United Nations tally of about 6,100 people killed. The president also said that 1,657 Ukrainian soldiers had been killed in combat.

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